Alternatively Oliver Jones wrote:
If one company wants to lay a cable all other companies must also lay cable in the same ditch.
Make sure a cable duct is put in, and then others have to use the same duct having their wires pulled in (for a suitable fee) Fibre is fine for Auckland City, Christchurch or parts of Wellington and up the coastline, but, I doubt I'll see one going into Taumaranui, Huntly or Ngaruawahia in a hurry The Big problems here will be Geographic in Nature One of the best options IMHO would be to get BCL to use the back haul line for data, set up feeds and radio systems, and move all TV to Satellite to free spectrum for radio based internet signals. They could resell to local ISP doing wireless networks for the short haul and High speed to the BCL backbone But then again they tried that as a probe project and were discarded in favour of Telecom's ADSL so who knows Perhaps if the incentives are right Vodafone will expand the Current 1GB cap on the $49 plan they are offering at present. The network is already in place, Maybe a probe like handout would help them roll out such a plan. Maybe when Opus D1 goes live we might get a satellite option, but I don't know what the elevation angle will be on that right now. .. or the Latency